Source-First Intelligence is market and competitor monitoring that starts with the sources: you decide whose publications you follow and work with their own content, instead of searching the open web for keywords. This website explains the approach, compares it with keyword monitoring and social listening, and shows how to apply it.https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/enhttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/market-monitoring/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/market-monitoring/What market monitoring is, how it differs from market analysis, market forecasting and market research, and what you actually monitor in practice.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterWhat is Source-First Intelligence?https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/platform-first/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/platform-first/Platform-First follows every entry of one kind on a platform: job boards, tenders, patent and company registers. What it does well, its limits, legal points.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterApproaches comparedhttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-or-platform/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-or-platform/Job board or careers page, TED or press release, register or company announcement: when Platform-First fits, when Source-First fits, and how they work together.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterApproaches comparedhttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/three-approaches-to-market-monitoring/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/three-approaches-to-market-monitoring/Market monitoring can start from a topic, a sender or a platform. What Topic-First, Source-First and Platform-First are good for, and how they fit together.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterApproaches comparedhttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/topic-first/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/topic-first/Topic-First starts with a topic: keyword monitoring, media monitoring, social listening. What it is good for, where it stops and how it relates to Source-First.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterApproaches comparedhttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/manifest/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/manifest/Five theses on source-first intelligence: why market and competitor monitoring should start with the sources, not with keywords. With evidence and objections.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterWhat is Source-First Intelligence?https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-first-cases/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-first-cases/8-K filings, ad hoc announcements, tender notices, job postings: documented cases and scenarios where a source's own wording shows more than the coverage.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterCases and scenarioshttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-first-in-context/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-first-in-context/Source-First is not a rival to competitive intelligence but an answer to its source question. How it relates to CI, market intelligence, OSINT and research.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterSource-First in the field of market monitoringhttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-first-in-practice/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/source-first-in-practice/How to monitor competitors with a method: one guiding question, a short list of sources, their channels, separate grades for sender and claim, then signals.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterSource-First in practicehttps://source-first-intelligence.com/en/sources-vs-keywords/https://source-first-intelligence.com/en/sources-vs-keywords/Keyword alerts show where a word appears. Source-First shows what a market player says itself. How it compares with media monitoring and social listening.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTDr. Karsten RichterApproaches compared